Nothing Yet (well Maybe a Little)
I've been shooting for the better part of 52 years and have yet to meet a gun I did not like when it comes to big bore, hard kicking sweet machinery.
I have had the pleasure of shooting some kind of British made double barrel rifle chambered in .600 nitro express. I don't remember what it was. I do remember that it would put your "johnson" in your watch pocket for you and it costs about $10 a round to shoot but dang it was fun.
That was 15 or so years ago and I tried to get the fellow to sell me the rifle. He wouldn't let it go. At that time I had more money than I had good sense and I offered him $10,000.00 for the rifle. He wouldn't take it and told me he loved that gun too much to sell it for any price. Apparently it was a family heirloom or something. :banghead:
I think you can buy guns like this from Cabelas these days but I'm not as financially endowed as I used to be so if it runs over a couple of grand I have to save for it these days.
I can tell you now that shooting that gun off-hand or off a good rest would knock any man less than 300 lbs. flat on his behind. I only put about 10 rounds through that thing and I could hardly move for a week.
I shot 5 rounds left-handed (my strong side) and 5 rounds right-handed. I was black and blue from my collarbones to the bottom of my rib cage on both sides for a good 5 or 6 weeks.
I'd like to say that gun didn't make me say ouch but I'd be lying to you. I did however enjoy it even though the aftermath was quite painful. I would not hesitate to do it again.
I keep getting a video emailed to me where a gunsmith made a pistol that looked something like a Thompson Contender chambered in .700 nitro express and some big hillbilly shooting it and it flying over the top of his head.
I'd love to get my hands on that too. I garauntee I could hold onto it. I'm not saying it would not be painful but I would take certain precautions and I'm sure I could shoot a few rounds out of it without letting it go flying over my head and back range behind the firing line like that bonehead did.
I do love me some big, hard kicking guns. I just don't see what people get out of peashooters. Too each his own. May you all enjoy your peashooters as much as I enjoy my hand and shoulder cannons.
Molon Labe,
Joe